Triple

T3589721
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Harrison E75996 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object John Harrison
John Harrison was an 18th-century English clockmaker renowned for inventing marine chronometers that solved the problem of determining longitude at sea.
 E371696 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: John Harrison | Statement: [Harrison, hasNotableBearer, John Harrison]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Harrison
Context triple: [Harrison, hasNotableBearer, John Harrison]
  • A. James Bradley
    James Bradley was an 18th-century English astronomer best known for discovering the aberration of starlight and providing strong evidence for the Earth's motion around the Sun.
  • B. Sandford Fleming
    Sandford Fleming was a Scottish-born Canadian engineer and inventor best known for proposing worldwide standard time zones and contributing significantly to Canada's railway development.
  • C. John Flamsteed
    John Flamsteed was a 17th–18th century English astronomer best known as the first Astronomer Royal and for his foundational star cataloguing work.
  • D. Charles Harrison Mason
    Charles Harrison Mason was an influential African American Holiness–Pentecostal minister who became the leading figure of early Pentecostalism in the United States.
  • E. Nathaniel Bowditch
    Nathaniel Bowditch was an American mathematician and astronomer best known for his influential work in celestial navigation and his book "The New American Practical Navigator."
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: John Harrison
Triple: [Harrison, hasNotableBearer, John Harrison]
Generated description
John Harrison was an 18th-century English clockmaker renowned for inventing marine chronometers that solved the problem of determining longitude at sea.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Harrison
Target entity description: John Harrison was an 18th-century English clockmaker renowned for inventing marine chronometers that solved the problem of determining longitude at sea.
  • A. James Bradley
    James Bradley was an 18th-century English astronomer best known for discovering the aberration of starlight and providing strong evidence for the Earth's motion around the Sun.
  • B. Sandford Fleming
    Sandford Fleming was a Scottish-born Canadian engineer and inventor best known for proposing worldwide standard time zones and contributing significantly to Canada's railway development.
  • C. John Flamsteed
    John Flamsteed was a 17th–18th century English astronomer best known as the first Astronomer Royal and for his foundational star cataloguing work.
  • D. Charles Harrison Mason
    Charles Harrison Mason was an influential African American Holiness–Pentecostal minister who became the leading figure of early Pentecostalism in the United States.
  • E. Nathaniel Bowditch
    Nathaniel Bowditch was an American mathematician and astronomer best known for his influential work in celestial navigation and his book "The New American Practical Navigator."
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69ad85d8042081908af94a04c410dec0 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc13c9514819096adf60b15016b8b completed March 8, 2026, 6:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b403085e9881908041a32f1dab43d1 completed March 13, 2026, 12:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4041bc85c8190948b7e47aef0e0d0 completed March 13, 2026, 12:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b40872099c81909bc3531bea77f875 completed March 13, 2026, 12:52 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:22 p.m.